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An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Studies of the solar system are advancing by leaps and bounds, especially to try to avoid, or at least know about, episodes ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured another stunningly close look at the surface of our sun. DKIST has collected ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

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Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

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